Monday, July 17: John at Discriminations blogs about a law school dean’s idea of diversity, which he doubts goes deeper than melanin. I concur.
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No matter how much hate e-mail I get or how many nasty blog posts my opinions generate, I will keep talking and writing about the hypocrisy of racialist double standards, the immorality of race preferences, and the unvarnished truth about skin color and cultural “diversity.” I expect naysayers to misrepresent this post as they do others, but that can’t be helped. I have no control over it.
There is a growing movement in the United States to mainstream mediocrity and define deviancy down. All cultures, ways of life, or however you want to define the ideals under which we live, are not equal, nor were they meant to be. American culture, for lack of a better term, is far better than any other on earth, including its diverse subcultures.
Among the native-born population, subcultures develop under the influence of American culture. They are dependent on and part of the main culture.
Some groups of foreigners retain part of their culture while assimilating into American culture. Other foreigners retain all of their culture and have no desire to assimilate into American culture. The latter group is a threat to how we live.
In fact, the immigrant of old is quickly becoming a relic. People land on these shores and demand from us that which would have gotten them imprisoned or killed in their home countries. With everyone from homosexuals to Muslims glomming on to the “civil rights” meme, it’s no great surprise that illegal aliens — lawbreakers — have become emboldened to demand “civil rights.”
I put the phrase in quotes because these people don’t want the obligations that come with those rights; they only want the benefits. Illegal aliens who’ve broken our laws take to our streets and demand the protection of our laws. They want to be special, not equal. They don’t want to play by the rules; they want exceptions. But the sword cuts both ways.
Illegal alien protests are only a small example of a much larger problem in the U.S. I don’t know exactly when the seed was planted, but I’d say it began to sprout and flourish in the last 20 years or so. What am I talking about? Diversity, the idea that value exists in differences, as defined by social engineers. There’s nothing valuable or worth celebrating about differences per se. Differences just are. But someone sold the idea that the dominant culture was no better than its subcultures, and that all values were equally valid and “good.” Or that the culture of an African or other third world country was not inferior to American, or Western culture.
Anybody with eyes, ears, heart, and mind knows this is not true. The ideals upon which our country was built are far superior to any other. And yes, the people who dared to dream of such a place and participate in this grand experiment are superior to others in all the ways that count.
Why do reasonable people allow the dumbing down and degradation? Why are we complicit in our own destruction? Why have we let social engineers and America-haters define for us what is good and evil? For instance, like it or not, America exists because of those vilified “dead white males.” Centuries of western thought culminated into where and how we now live. A system that is highly ordered and allows individual liberty and provides economic incentive is far superior to one that is disorganized and represses individuals and forces people to labor for the benefit its rulers. A nation whose people share a common language and culture is far superior to a balkanized one where different cultures are constantly jockeying for position.
What makes America unique is e pluribus unum, one made out of many. While America may not have begun with diverse racial and ethnic groups, the founders laid the foundation for a time they had not foreseen. That’s the beauty of it. Guided by the hand of God, they didn’t need to foresee it. All they needed to do was build the foundation on solid, objectively good principles, and yes, Christian values, and the rest fell into place. America wasn’t built on “white values.” It was built on human values, with recognition to God-given rights.
But people opposed to these rights are trying to break the foundation and create something new, something that is doomed to fail. America works because it is America. It will cease to work if it becomes a third world nation and dominated by inferior subcultures. Special interest groups and organizations intent on tearing up the foundation and changing the dominant culture to suit their needs are destroying the country.
Where did this idea of special or “group rights” come from? As much as I appreciate what the Civil Rights movement has done for me, it was this era that group rights became acceptable, particularly for “minorities.” I won’t get into why I think that’s the case because I’ve written about it before and don’t have time to get into here.
For instance, blacks are not judged as individuals. We are a group with special, not equal, rights. In the aftermath of the movement, into the 1970s, racial entitlements crept in. The mere fact that a person was black meant that he was automatically regarded as someone needing remedial help. Special admission tracks and hiring quotas were set up. All types of grievance, no matter how trivial and ignorant, became legitimate in the eyes of guilty whites. Equal opportunity gave way to equal outcomes, the absence of which was evidence of “racism.”
The same is happening with “Hispanics” and Latinos. Group rights, special rights, are all the rage. Based on misplaced white guilt, the dominant culture started to cave long ago, turning their collective back on objective truths and principles and allowing every racial and cultural minority group with a grievance to make claims and demand that which they don’t deserve and didn’t earn. Every racial and cultural minority — except whites — is allowed to lobby for its race and culture, to demand acquiescence (and tax dollars).
Ed Morrissey expresses my thoughts in his post on respect for our way of life, particularly the idea of equal treatment under the law.
A couple of weeks ago I posed the question of why we allow racial double standards. Why are groups that promote the interests of people of African or Latin American or Middle Eastern descent acceptable, but groups that promote the interests of whites, or people of European descent, unacceptable? I have yet to hear or read a logically sound answer. Emotion-laden responses are a dime a dozen, as they typically are when race is discussed. Nobody wants to think about the questions and answer them honestly.
As far as racialist groups are concerned, I believe Americans should show more loyalty to their country than to their skin color. But if we’re going to accept one group’s racial grievances as legitimate, we have to use the same standards and accept the grievances of all racial groups, including whites.
In that “controversial” post, I blogged about an hispanic racialist group called La Raza, which has zero interest in “diversity.” Last month I wrote about race-based, government-subsidized schools in California supported by La Raza in “I’m A Libertarian on Education.” Michelle Malkin’s latest column is about similar La Raza-supported schools.
Imagine, if you can, a government-subsidized school that promoted white separatism. The outrage would be unbelievable. (I have no problem with race- or sex-based private schools. Freedom of assembly is guaranteed in our Constitution.) But groups like La Raza are not condemned. They are courted and coddled. Karl Rove recently spoke to the racialist group, droning on about “immigration.” Joseph Farah does an excellent job expressing my thoughts on the matter. Read it and learn.
Rove said:
Everything that this country is, everything that we have achieved, everything that we hold, everything that we promise, is because we are a nation of diversity, brought together by immigration, and sharing a common dream.
Lawrence Auster, whom some call a racist, also expresses my thoughts. You see, unlike most, I listen to what people have to say before I make judgments, especially if what they say is considered “politically incorrect.” Their desire to protect America and maintain our way of life is far more important to me than the color of their skin. Auster responded to Rove:
So, diversity is everything that America is, everything that it means, and this diversity is only held together by … no, not by the self-evident truths that “all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,†but by a “dream.†Held together by a dream? What is a dream? A dream is someone’s wishes and desires. Bush and Rove have cast aside the objective truths of human nature that America was founded on and are declaring a new America, founded on everyone’s wishes and desires.
Those objective truths of human nature, the ones that enable each and every inhabitant of this country to live his life in peace and benefit from the labor of his own mind and hands, regardless of skin color or country of origin. The perversity of diversity is that it denies men these rights, engineering coercive policies, whereby one man’s freedom and the fruits of his labor are slowly siphoned away to those who didn’t earn them and to whom he’s done no harm.
Diversity, as defined by leftists, is a skin deep-only mish-mash of false premises based on raising the “self-esteem” of one group and alleviating the guilt of another at the expense of objective truth and to the detriment of us all.
The problem I encounter when I write posts like this is that I’ve touched on many different subjects — race preferences, illegal “immigration,” God — and tried to pull them together in an organized and coherent manner. Sometimes I fail. Certain people will read this post and render judgment without taking the time to read a few pages of the archives to get a better sense of context. As I wrote before, that can’t be helped. I trust that thoughtful, mature, and smart people who really want to learn and expand their own thinking will invest the time to read other posts before they comment.
The Cultural Decline category is worth a read. The Race Preferences category will shed light on why I criticize racial grievances. The Faith category will also help you understand why I think and write the way I do. There are several pages in each category, so click Next Page at the bottom to keep reading.
I can’t allow misunderstanding, misreading, and misinterpretation to deter me from my mission. I despise hypocrisy, moral relativity and equivalency, “diversity” as defined by white liberals, special rights, degradation of the principles that made America the great country it is today (principles which, ironically, give people who hate those principles the freedom to speak out against them!), and anyone who presumes to judge me based on my membership in a racial group rather than on my worth as a human being and an individual.
I despise cowardice, effeteness, pettiness, and people who tell me how and what I ought to think, especially when the “advice” is based on my membership in a racial group.
Diversity, as defined by leftists, has led to the perversion of American ideals. I predict that one day, after I’m long dead and buried, perhaps when those born this decade are old men and women, America won’t be great, as defined by this generation. It will be a balkanized, multilingual mass of racial and ethnic groups fighting over dwindling resources while the elites — the white liberals who engineered the whole mess — observe their dastardly handiwork.
Of interest:
- Bogus Rights
- Know Your Freedoms
- How Not To Be Poor
- Walter Williams On Customs, Traditions And Moral Values
- John Kerry’s Racist Rhetoric
- Anti-Lynching Legislation
